“What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?--They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.”

“There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.”

“Why," said the saint, "did I go into the forest and the desert? Was it not because I loved mankind far too well? Now I love God! Mankind I do not love; mankind is a thing too imperfect for me. Love of mankind would be fatal to me.”

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”

“Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.”

“Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty”

“Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?”